This sketch is the one hundred and sixth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and six: This sketch was inspired by a painting titled “On the Nile” by the nineteenth-century American painter, Sanford Robinson Gifford. The painting appeared in a presentation at the […]
Also tagged art on art, oil, waterThis sketch is the ninety-ninth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day ninety-nine: I’ve been looking at 16th-century Dutch landscapes all day while working on my paper. The use of a tree to anchor the scenes perspective and direct the viewer’s eye into the distance was […]
Also tagged nature, pencil, springThis sketch is the ninety-fourth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day ninety-four: Continuing the woodcut theme for a second day, this pine tree is based on one by German printmaker Albrecht Altdorfer. It’s from a series of forty tiny woodcuts narrating “The Fall and Redemption […]
Also tagged art on art, black, oilThis sketch is the eightieth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day eighty: My friend Steven suggested I sketch Spring today. I decided to imagine a little landscape where receding snow gives way to sprigs of grass and a handful to tulips pushing up through last […]
Also tagged oil, springThis sketch is the seventy-sixth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy-six: While repeatedly stepping and going no where on the Stairmaster at the gym, I began to wonder what I should draw today. I decided to adapt the Stairmaster display into an imaginary landscape, […]
Also tagged oilThis sketch is the seventy-fifth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy-five: Belgian avant-garde artist, James Ensor, is a favorite of mine. Especially his etchings. I made this drawing of a detail from one of his earliest (1886) and most famous prints, La Cathédrale, from […]
Also tagged art on art, ensor, pencilThis sketch is the sixty-ninth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day sixty-nine: Well, tonight at 10:00 PM after a long productive day I felt entirely wiped out, but I still hadn’t made a sketch. I didn’t even have the energy pick a subject. While flipping […]
Also tagged pencil, waterThis sketch is the sixty-seventh in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day sixty-seven: D. Y. Cameron was a Scottish artist who painted and made etched prints of landscapes in his native country. My drawing here was inspired by a picture of Ben Ledi by Cameron in […]
Also tagged art on art, cameron, charcoal, waterThis sketch is the sixty-fifth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day sixty-five: My friends Dori J. and John D. each sent me a link to http://www.thejohnnycashproject.com, a site where anyone can draw a frame from the video “Ain’t No Grave” by Johnny Cash. This is […]
Also tagged art on art, figure study, johnny cash, waterThis sketch is the fifty-fifth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day fifty-five: This landscape was drawn after part of a snapshot one of my parents took when I was about 7, and we lived on a farm outside of Bemidji, MN. Making this picture helped […]
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